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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

Barbara Walters

When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
BARBARA WALTERS

Control Interview Thinking Yourself
I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
BARBARA WALTERS

Lines People Rumor
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
BARBARA WALTERS

Better Goodness Interview Laughter
Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
BARBARA WALTERS

Church Literature Superstitions
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
BARBARA WALTERS

Kind Tree Yourself
This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don’t fight the little fight… Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don’t whine, and don’t be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
BARBARA WALTERS

Badass Battle Fighting
I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
BARBARA WALTERS

Education Mean Religious
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
BARBARA WALTERS

Literature Poetic Thinking
People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
BARBARA WALTERS

Compassion Race Self
when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
BARBARA WALTERS

Blame Children Firsts
The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
BARBARA WALTERS

Modern Party Share
Work harder than everybody. You’re not going to get it by whining, and you’re not going to get it by shouting, and you’re not going to get it by quitting. You’re going to get it by being there.
BARBARA WALTERS

Everybody Hard Quitting Shout Work
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
BARBARA WALTERS

Cuba Earth Yardsticks
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
BARBARA WALTERS

Admire Juggle Meet Myself Trouble
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS

Approval Made Men
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS

Approval Comfortable Man

I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

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